Blogger 2

1. Who is the audience and community? What is being presented? How might comments be used, who can/should/ comment?

Our audience and community for this blog is two-fold:

The first audience is all the other students in our class. We are taking a collective journey together learning how to use technology, not for technology sake, but to use it as a tool in our classroom. I always like to say, I have learned more from other teachers than I have ever learned in a classroom environment.

Second, I will be using the blog to crystallize technology ideas that I have in my head. I am currently using technology to check for understanding in my class, but it seems haphazard. I am also planning on showing my blog to other teachers in my building that I know are always looking for technology ideas.

We will be presenting what we have learned and reflected upon to each other. I am guessing that Dr. Pierce, as our professor, will be using our blogs to access and guide our understanding and usage of technology.

I am hoping, as a learning community, that we will all be commenting on each others websites. I am thinking about actually showing my website to my classes at some point and maybe have them comment on it from a student's perspective.

What I found most intriguing about the article was the comments about loneliness, and feeling connected. I belong to a couple of football forums and know that blogs can create community of others from around the world.

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Please discuss how these activities fit into 4 domains of blogging in the first article. How does ‘reflect’ and ‘share’ fit into  the blogging domains from #1?

We read, write and reflect for ourselves. We try to deepen our understanding about the subject we are trying to learn or teach. In my opinion, writing could include other media examples. Sometimes, it is easier just to show a two minute video or a infographic about a subject to convey a thought.

Comments to me, are the KEY in a successful blog. if used correctly, it is here that you can receive constructive criticism, different ways of looking at a problem and different ways to move forward

Classroom: My leadership class is required to write a daily learning log. Some are great while others are not so well written. I am wondering if we blog our learning logs, #1 can the blogs remain anonymous to others students but not to me. I am thinking that I could have my students just blog under their student number. Will the students still share their personal experiences in public even if anonymously.

#2 will the students "copy" their feelings from other students into their personal log

It's interesting to me that I have come back and edited both of my blog posts after I "finished" blogging. Both times, thoughts have "popped" into my head while doing other things